en Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics %E2%80%93 Men%27s 50 kilometres walk

Men's 50 kilometres walk
at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Men's 50 kilometres walk; at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Venue	Central Lenin Stadium
Date	30 July
Competitors	29 from 14 nations
Winning time	3:49:24
Medalists
	← 1972 1984 →

The Men's 50 km Race Walk at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR had an entry list of 27 competitors. Three athletes were disqualified and nine of them did not finish in the final, held on 30 July 1980.^[1] This event was not held during 1976 Summer Olympics,returning to Olympic program after last returning to the program after a hiatus edition, because it was held in 1972.

This event netted Spain its first-ever medal in athletics, with Jordi Llopart taking silver.^[2]

Medalists

Gold	Hartwig Gauder East Germany
Silver	Jordi Llopart Spain
Bronze	Yevgeniy Ivchenko Soviet Union

Final ranking

Rank	Athlete	Time
	Hartwig Gauder (GDR)	3:49:24
	Jordi Llopart (ESP)	3:51:25
	Yevgeniy Ivchenko (URS)	3:56:32
4	Bengt Simonsen (SWE)	3:57:08
5	Vyacheslav Fursov (URS)	3:58:32
6	Josep Marín (ESP)	4:03:08
7	Stanisław Rola (POL)	4:07:07
8	Willi Sawall (AUS)	4:08:25
9	László Sátor (HUN)	4:10:53
10	Pavol Blažek (TCH)	4:16:26
11	Ian Richards (GBR)	4:22:57
12	Christos Karageorgos (GRE)	4:24:36
13	Juraj Benčík (TCH)	4:27:39
14	Enrique Peña (COL)	4:29:27
15	Ernesto Alfaro (COL)	4:46:28
DID NOT FINISH (DNF)
—	Bo Gustafsson (SWE)	DNF
—	Bohdan Bułakowski (POL)	DNF
—	Daniel Bautista (MEX)	DNF
—	David Smith (AUS)	DNF
—	Gérard Lelièvre (FRA)	DNF
—	Martín Bermúdez (MEX)	DNF
—	Raúl González (MEX)	DNF
—	Reima Salonen (FIN)	DNF
—	Boris Yakovlev (URS)	DNF
DISQUALIFIED (DSQ)
—	Dietmar Meisch (GDR)	DSQ
—	Jaromír Vaňous (TCH)	DSQ
—	Uwe Dünkel (GDR)	DSQ